The project was implemented between 2016 and 2022 in cooperation between the implementing partner (Municipality of Ig), ZRC SAZU and KPLB, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and consists of the following components:

A.Morostig Museum; House of Nature and the Pile dwelling settlement at Ig
B.Connecting trail to the Pile dwelling settlement (with resting places and interpretations)
C.Open "archaeological museum" with lake and reinterpretation of the Pile dwelling settlement

The project involved many participants from different disciplines, so the process required extensive coordination between all of them, and the architects were a kind of "catalysts and facilitators" of the different activities and themes.

Ad A (museum and square/park)

With its strategic placement (morphologically following the historical, parcel, transverse direction of the volume to the thoroughfare) and the design of the new square and park in front of it, Morostig House attempts to focus and revitalize the otherwise dispersed settlement core of Igo in terms of composition and content. Close to the modern, multifunctional center and other public buildings of the town, the modern museum - together with the old granary, which was saved from demolition and restored - forms a creative dialogue between old and new, traditional and modern, closed and open structures. The new building geometry and volume were precisely placed in the surrounding context (with all the prescribed setbacks), slightly rotated and extended, thus creating a distance and a bridge to the old granary. Together, they form a public entrance façade facing the newly designed square (which will extend into the current eastern car park), with the longer one opening towards the sun, the green and the park, and the rear one closing onto the western car park.

With its proportions, the shape of the gabled roof and its materiality, the museum partly responds to the heritage of the local building culture (the specificity of the place, the 'genius loci'), but at the same time (e.g. through the use of secondary rhythms of the wooden columns, the façade cladding, etc.) it evokes the idea of ancient hillforts. As an example of "critical regionalism", it thus becomes a symbolic and actual meeting place between the local community and "global" visitors.

Ad B (routes)

The connecting route to the Pile dwelling settlement is a journey through space and time (descending into prehistory) and includes pillared walkways with resting places and interpretation tools, raised above the centuries-old waters, set alongside the marshland meadows and canals. The structures are conceived as a wooden, tectonic composition with an elementary but modern logic of stacking and joining. The wood species are chosen according to their function and durability (chestnut, acacia, oak...). The location of the stakes on the islet between the Iščico, Želimljščico and Smoligojnikom is reached through the "marsh propropiles", via a footbridge made of two cross-laminated timber blocks, covered with a hyperbolic-paraboloid "curtain". Crossing the river, we perform the rite of passage and enter the area of prehistoric settlements.

Ad C (Pile dwelling settlement)

The narrower area of the archaeological park consists of modern architectures (entrance building, toilet building and all paths with equipment) and a reinterpretation of a Pile dwelling settlement (the site of Iščica-Parte was used as a reference for the floor plan). The two architectural languages are different (intentional disjunction), but at the same time converge (common character). A circular path leads through the settlement, in the middle of which there is a so-called lake, which evokes the atmosphere of a proto-settlement on the shore of a former lake. Of the five buildings, three are exhibition and interpretation buildings with the interior furnishings of huts (ZRC SAZU), while two are incomplete and demonstrate the way in which the huts were (re)constructed. The hut structures are made of wood, the walls are made of willow ashlar and clay plaster, and the roofs are covered with thatch and reeds. The design of the settlement allows for the possibility of further growth.

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